What are the traditional definitions of HEALTH and ILLNESS in each of the communities?
The questions that follow should be thoughtfully considered:
1. What are the traditional definitions of HEALTH and ILLNESS in each of the communities? Are they alike or different?
2. What are the traditional methods of maintaining HEALTH? 3. What are the traditional ways of protecting HEALTH? 4. What are the traditional ways of restoring HEALTH? 5. Who are the traditional HEALERS? What functions do they perform?
This is an extraordinary way to build connections between communities and to see how much different ethnocultural and religious communities have in common. Since HEALTH is the metaphor for this text, it brings to the forefront a way to analyze and understand some of the variability in health care.